The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.
There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.
If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.
Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die. . . Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.
Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.
